If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun Microsystems planned for it in the mid-1990s. Back then it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-future-we-never-got-running-a-future-we-got/)

Why 56k Modems Relied On Digital Phone Lines You Didn’t Know We Had
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/)

Hacking Digital Calipers for Automated Measurements and Sorta-Micron Accuracy
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/hacking-digital-calipers-for-automated-measurements-and-sorta-micron-accuracy/

We’ll take a guess that most readers have a set of digital calipers somewhere close to hand right now. The cheapest ones tend to be a little unsatisfying in the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/hacking-digital-calipers-for-automated-measurements-and-sorta-micron-accuracy/)

Hackaday Europe 2025 Welcomes David Cuartielles, Announces Friday Night Bring-a-Hack
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/hackaday-europe-2025-welcomes-david-cuartielles-announces-friday-night-bring-a-hack/

If you’re coming to Hackaday Europe 2025, you’ve got just over a week to get your bags packed and head on out to Berlin. Of course you have tickets already, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/hackaday-europe-2025-welcomes-david-cuartielles-announces-friday-night-bring-a-hack/)

Custom Touchpad PCBs Without The Pain
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/custom-touchpad-pcbs-without-the-pain/

Many of us use touch pads daily on our laptops, but rarely do we give much thought about what they really do. In fact they are a PCB matrix of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/custom-touchpad-pcbs-without-the-pain/)

Plastic Gear Repair
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/plastic-gear-repair/

We’ve seen several methods of repairing plastic gears. After all, a gear is usually the same all the way around, so it is very tempting to duplicate a good part …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/plastic-gear-repair/)

The Strange Afterlife of the Xbox Kinect
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-strange-afterlife-of-the-xbox-kinect/

The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-strange-afterlife-of-the-xbox-kinect/)